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[edit] Events
- 1917 - The Congress of the United States passes a law, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States.
- 1919 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists, before heavy Jewish involvement.
- 1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
- 1958 - A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
- 1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins.
- 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission - Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell aboard LM, Antares land on the Moon at Fra Mauro formation.
- 1994 - Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
- 1997 - The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
[edit] Births
- 1589 - Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
- 1608 - Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)
- 1788 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
- 1846 - Johann Most, German-American anarchist (d. 1906)
- 1900 - Adlai Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965)
- 1914 - William Seward Burroughs II, American novelist (d. 1997)
[edit] Deaths
- 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
- 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)
- 1948 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
- 2008 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. c. 1917)
